Zen, Work, Goals, Conversation Quotes

ZEN
Mevlani Rumi
Sell all your cleverness and purchase bewilderment.

WORK
Barbara J. Winter
For the few who are passionate in their work, that passion is basic to their emotional well-being – and to their financial success.

GOALS
David Viscott
Your ultimate goal in life is to become your best self. Your immediate goal is to get on the path that will lead you there.

CONVERSATION
Ludwig Wittgenstein
One often makes a remark and only later sees how true it is.

Zen, Media, Dreams, Drink Quotes

ZEN
Robert Mallet
Nothing is more moving than beauty which is unaware of itself, except for ugliness which is.

MEDIA
Italian Proverb
There’s no thief like a bad book.

DREAMS
Peter McWilliams
When we realize one Dream, sometimes a deeper Dream reveals itself. At other times a parallel Dream appears. The one that scares the hell out of you is probably it.

DRINK
William Butler YeatsThe worst thing about some men is that when they are not drunk they are sober.

Zen, Education, Change, Conversation

ZEN
Kahlil Gibran
Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.

EDUCATION
Peter McWilliams
If we learned everything there is to know in kindergarten, it was promptly drummed out of us in first grade.

CHANGE
William Edwards Deming
It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory.

CONVERSATION
Ben Jonson
Language most shows a man: Speak, that I may see thee.

Zen, Communism, Exceptional, Children

Zen

Michael E. Angier
The only thing that has to be done today is to breathe.

Communism

Anonymous
Whatever their faults, the Communists did not invent canned laughter.

Exceptional

William Cather
In this world people have to pay an extortionate price for any exceptional gift whatever.

Children

Maya Angelou
Children’s talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives.